Links from Youtube Channel

[seanmccauley]

I stumbled across this blog post:

http://garyreid.com/youtube-removes-nofollow/

and also this one : http://www.kevin-barnes.com/youtube-secret-authority-loophole/

which talks about no-follow links from your Youtube Channel Page. We've setup a Youtube channel, and have begun updating it regularly, however the link appears to be a redirect-type link -presumably this means no link juice is passed?

The code of the link on our Youtube channel:

http://www.pretavoir.co.uk

The second blog mentions building PA on your Youtube channel by commenting on other videos which then links back to your channel page - if that juice can't go to your site, then I assume the technique is of limited use? Apart from boosting your Youtube Channel's rankings of course, which I guess can't hurt.

[G-Force]

Hey Sean,

I looked at the cached version of the YouTube channel of BMW ( http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.youtube.com/bmw&hl=fr&lr=&sa=G&strip=1 ) and it doesn't seem to have any kind of redirect on this one.

You might have seen a redirect because you were logged into your account and looking at your own channel, like when you can edit it, so probably by logging out or by looking at the cached version by Google you should see that it is a plain juice flowing link.

Regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

P.S. Look at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.youtube.com/user/PretavoirUK&hl=fr&lr=&sa=G&strip=1